The stories Don’t Give Up the Fight and Susan B. Anthony Dares to Vote share a common theme which is perseverance. In the story Don’t Give Up the Fight, Ava is being bullied by the boys on the track team, because she is the only girl. Susan in Susan B. Anthony Dares to Vote, shows perseverance because, she had to speak up even though she would get arrested. While both of the stories share a common theme the character’s actions are very different. The story Susan B. Anthony Dares to Vote, Susan fights for women’s rights using speech. While Ava, in the story Don’t Give Up the Fight, raced one of the boys on the track team making her use physical activity to redeem herself.
In Don’t Give Up the Fight perseverance is showed in most of the text. For example, Jacob a boy on the track team said “If you beat me to the tree I believe you.” This is important to notice because, this shows that Jacob thinks that Ava can’t win any races. Also, the boys were making fun of her on the bus because she was very quiet. So, the boys asked, “Are you dead?” Because Ava didn’t answer the boys the first time. But, what really hurt her was when she saw coach McCoy laughing when the boys said something really mean.This is important to notice because, she was traumatized from coach McCoy
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Anthony Dares to Vote, the theme perseverance is showed throughout the story. For example, Susan in the beginning of the story got arrested because she was fighting for women’s rights, which got her arrested. In the story she said “I shall never pay a dollar.” This is important to notice, because she is resisting to the judge, and saying that she will never pay any fine, fee, etc. Also, Susan said “I am here for a little time only, and then my place will be filled… The fight must not cease. You must see that is does not stop. Failure is impossible.” This shows that through all of Susan’s hard work she never gave up. This is how Susan B. Anthony shows perseverance in the
One place where you can find perseverance is at the beginning of the book (page 18) where Ryan said “My mom distracted me from the fact that I didn’t know who my dad was”. This shows perseverance because, Ryan never actually knew who his dad was, and he would have to persevere through that not knowing who his dad was. The author uses a revealing action in order to support the motif of perseverance. His mom has the perseverance & even some courage to keep a huge secret of his dead father away from him for his whole life, possible because his mom doesn’t want her son to find out about these very important secrets of his father. Another place where perseverance is found is on page 312, where Ryan then says “Estevan put him in for me”. This shows perseverance because, Ryan (the star quarterback) took himself out of the football game, because he had a weak arm, and put someone else in the game (Estevan) who was stronger, and the only person that could throw the ball to win the game for them. This evidence shows that Ryan is having to persevere through the hard/tougher times. The author uses a revealing action in order to support the motif of perseverance. He has perseverance to sub himself out of the biggest football game in his life, possibly because he knew something about a player on their team that the rest of them didn’t. Therefore, according to booklist review, “Ryan struggles to balance old friendships with his new
In Anthony’s fourth paragraph, she discusses the idea that if women really are not citizens then they are subjected to living in an oligarchy. This raises an emotional response in the audience because women do not want to and should not have to be forced into being the lesser. Anthony’s second paragraph, in which she discussed the perception of mockery women were subjected to, also raises an emotional response in the audience. For example, “And it is a downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government- the ballot.” this statement evokes emotion because it allows the audience to see the humiliation women faced on a day to day basis (Anthony paragraph 2). The fact that women were not allowed to vote and were spoken to as if they enjoyed their liberty of law invokes embarrassment in the audience. This was effective because it allows the male members of the audience to feel the way the women did, in certain instances.
Anthony was an activist for women’s suffrage and equal rights for all throughout the mid 1800s and early 1900s. Early in her life, Anthony worked as an agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society, for which she regularly held meetings and distributed information to influence others in supporting the abolishment of slavery. Following the addition of the 13th amendment to the United States Constitution, Anthony published a newspaper, The Revolution, promoting an eight-hour work day and equal pay for women. Lastly, up until the Nineteenth Amendment was made to the U.S. constitution, Susan. B. Anthony campaigned for women’s rights, specifically the right to vote and therefore equally contribute to American government. In protesting for topics such as women’s suffrage, race equality, and equal pay for equal work, Anthony effectively stood up for what she and those who followed her believed
The Progressive Era was full of people wanting to change their surroundings and laws in
The vote that changed the world: Susan B. Anthony’s Fight For Women’s Suffrage On November 5, 1872, Susan B. Anthony and fourteen of her supporters, went to a voter registration office set up in a barber shop in in Rochester, New York. The fifteen women illegally cast their vote in the presidential election. The election inspectors refused the women’s request, but Anthony would not give up and stated, “If you refuse us our rights as citizens, I will bring charges against you in Criminal Court and I will sue each of you personally for large, exemplary damages!" (The trial of). She continued to say, "I know I can win.
The Poem-Making Sarah Cry and the article Susan B Anthony Dares to Vote both shares a common theme of Bravery. In Making Sarah Cry, The boy was being bullied by his friends.Once Sarah saw the situation, she showed an act of bravery by standing up to the boys.In Susan B Anthony Dares to Vote, Susan stood up to the judge during her trial that all women should have the right to Vote even though she knew that she could go to jail. While the poem and the article show a common theme of Bravery, they both show it in their own ways. The characters both Influence someone for different purposes.Susan B Anthony is trying to get women the right to vote all over the nation, However, Sarah is trying to make a difference for herself.
In the story “Making Sarah Cry” the theme is being different and this theme also carries over to “Susan B Anthony Dares to Vote.” In the passage “Making Sarah Cry” Sarah is different because she stutters when she speaks and she was slow and isn't as smart as the rest they also called her names. In the story “Susan B Anthony Dares to Vote.
Since the first page of Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance, perseverance is prevalent. No matter what comes J.D. Vance’s way he always works through it. There are many ways people respond to the adversity in life, and there are many ways people respond each distinct time. Perseverance has been key in my life, not just J.D. Vance’s; I would argue every person in this world as well. Whether it be in the military, like Vance, school, sports, or a job, there is no hiding from adverse situations. J.D. Vance talks about his adversity extensively in Hillbilly Elegy, and if success is wanted, perseverance is a major key in the process. Fighting through the challenging times in life is what will get the job done in the end.
The crucial process of slavery was the biggest economic salvation in the United States for hundreds of years. With time, many evangelical Americans began to emphasize the struggling lives of slaves in order for them to be saved through the grace of their mighty God. In the early 1800s, the Second Great Awakening rose to power to acknowledge the slaves and their rights as children of God. During the Civil War (1861-1865), the Abolitionist Movement managed to abolish slavery through the 13th Amendment on December 6, 1865. Later, Congress ratified the 14th Amendment in 1868 that granted black people the same rights as white people in the nation. The statement, "the right to vote ... to any of
In A Woman’s Crusade, Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot, Mary Walton argues how important it is for women to actively know the history with their equality rights, and how Alice Paul and other women fought so hard for those rights throughout time. All through time women have fought for the right to vote, equal rights in the workplace, and rights for our own body, these fights have been so important for woman to move on in our society to been seen as equals and not the weaker sex. Moving back in time with Mary Walton’s book “A Woman’s Crusade,” in the early stages of women’s suffrage is an inspiring crusade of inspiration. Alice Paul started her early days as an eighth generation American Quaker, living a life as a Quaker Alice Paul
“It took 400 years after the declaration of independence was signed and 50 years after black men were given voting rights before women were treated as full American citizens and able to vote.” A women named Susan B. Anthony was one of those women struggling to be the same as mankind. Susan B. Anthony worked helped form women’s way to the 19th amendment. Anthony was denied an opportunity to speak at a convention because she was a woman. She then realized that no one would take females seriously unless they had the right to vote. Soon after that she became the founder of the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869. In 1872, she voted in the presidential election illegally and then arrested with a hundred dollar fine she never paid.” I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.”(Anthony) When Susan B. Anthony died on March 13, 1906, women still didn’t have the right to vote. 14 years after her death, the 19th amendment was passed. In honor of Anthony her portrait was put on one dollar coins in
Anthony agreed with Douglass and wanted to make a change. Anthony got arrested for voting in a election illegally but she does not stop fighting for her right to vote. Anthony’s verdict was guilty and she was fined $100, that she would never pay (Susan House). She started fighting for women's suffrage after she was not allowed to speak at temperance rallies because she was a women (Susan Story). She started fighting for women’s rights when she met a women named Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and they fought for women’s rights (Harper). Anthony always fought for what she believed she would go around and give speeches, get people to sign petitions for women’s suffrage, anti-slavery, and married women’s property rights ( Abolitionist,
Many women and African American men had long dreamed to have the right to vote. In many states, they could only vote if their state allowed them the privilege. The dedicated men and women fought for their right to vote in the Civil Rights Movement in the early and mid 1900s. Congress passed the Fifteenth Amendment and the Voting Rights Act to give African Americans the rights to vote. It would have not occurred if the Civil Rights Movement had not taken place. The Nineteenth Amendment would not have occurred either if not for the Civil Rights Movement. The freedom to vote is now held by a majority because of the fight by the people involved in the Civil Rights Movement, and the African Americans and women who fought for their right to
Fighting for civil rights as a minority has never in the history of the United States of America been easy. Chief Joseph and Susan B. Anthony both wrote historic speeches that called for a change in action by the U.S. government. Whether it be to stop fighting or give a vote to women, these remarkable speeches have stood the test of time. Both used similar strategies to make their argument strong and used different rhetorical appeals to deliver it in the way they believed fit best with the problem they were addressing. Both Chief Joseph in "On Surrender At Bear Paw Mountain, 1877" and Susan B. Anthony in "On Women's Right to Vote" think of the audience they are trying to persuade and fit the speech to them in order to have the most impact.
The article Susan B Anthony Dares to Vote, and the story Don’t Give Up The Fight both share the same theme of courage. Susan B Anthony Dares to Vote shows courage by standing up for equal rights, while Don’t Give Up The Fight shows courage by standing up for yourself. Even though the passages are very similar, they are different because Susan B. Anthony took more risks while showing courage, while Ava took fewer risks while standing up for herself.